most of the time yes, sometimes no.
2006-07-23 11:50:40
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answer #1
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answered by nickname 3
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Absolutely NOT! Political correctness is cumbersome and tyrannnical! Of course you should not offend people to their face, e.g. you don't tell someone they're fat, ugly, stupid....etc..etc..and you don't say nasty things about different races out loud. But there's a difference between that and having an opinion that is different from everyone else's. Just because your entire town believes in the death penalty, doesn't mean you have to. And there isn't anything wrong with saying so. Political correctness simply means "don't say anything contrary to the majority opinion at hand".
2006-07-23 18:55:21
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answer #2
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answered by ami 3
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In some instances it's alright, but we as a society have taken it WAY too far. Everything and everyone now is so bloody sensitive about the littlest things. We're all categorized to the nth degree and it's quite contrary to growth. One can't make a joke or some days even a comment without fear (fear, yes) of offending someone else.
It's like water...Just enough is great, makes one cool and feel refreshed. Too little and we die from dehydration (shriveling up of the soul, perhaps?). Too much and we drown in the accumulation of our own good intents.
2006-07-23 18:59:58
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answered by Mama Otter 7
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PC is a good replacement for brutal honesty when required. example... you're homophobic and your friend just told you he's gay... instead of responding with a long list of 4 letter words, you say something to the effect that he's entitled to be, but you don't approve of it. in this sense, it is definitely a betterment.
however, most of the time, PC is used as a way to mask, euphemise, or even completely hide the truth. or it is carried so ridiculously far that you can't even see that it ever had any connection to the truth. this is certainly a very sad and bad turn of events.
perhaps we should abandon PC and simply rediscover things like politeness and civility.
2006-07-23 19:02:17
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answer #4
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answered by gwenwifar 4
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Being politically correct is like a fashion tred (or fad). One day, calling a mentally handicaped person a retard is acceptable but is unacceptable the next. Retarded literally means SLOW. If you're slow, you're therefore retarded. It comes from french. Politics is over-rated and politicians speak of subject they know little about. Those uneducated morons should never be in office to begin with.
2006-07-23 18:53:20
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answered by FIONEX 3
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No. Anytime we stifle free speech, or censor people because what they say is not 'politically correct', we open the door for ourselves to be censored and silenced when what we say suddenly becomes 'politically incorrect'. The problem with political correctness is that the standard keeps changing.
2006-07-23 18:53:43
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answered by wild1handy 3
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Teaching ppl to be sensitive to others is a healthy thing.
Using terminology that is of a negative tone is detrimental. For example, I can't stand to hear the phrase, "runs like a girl." unless it is actually about someone running I guess. But most of the time it is referring to running away like a coward. That always ticks me off when I believe women have more courage than men when it comes for standing up and fighting for what we believe in at all cost.
With all that said though, it can be taken to the extreme. And I have no clue what has happen to the phrase, "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me."
That teaches us to let negative things bounce off us and that we choose to let somebody's elses opinion of us hurt us or not. We seem to have lost that mentality.
Oh yeah I wanted to add a funny story: myself and a friend were talking and she slipped and called someone she knows a damn jew for some financial deal they did. My eyebrows went up.... and she, knowing I am of jewish race, immediately started backtracking. I then said, 'damn Irish drunk' because she is Irish and drinks A LOT. She said ohhh good one and we laughed for I bet half an hour.
2006-07-24 19:44:00
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answered by BeachBum 7
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Political correctness is bullshit liberalism. Dems are always trying to shut the conservatives up with their lies - but the whole problem is, the ingnorant followers believe their lies cuz they are not astute enough to check them OUT! Get Ann Coulter's book "Godless".
2006-07-23 18:52:59
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answered by ravin_lunatic 6
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I thought so at first and still do some, but when you have people threatening to sue Disney over a Mr Magoo cartoon, you have to wonder.
2006-07-23 19:02:55
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answered by curls 4
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only good thing it did was make people aware-otherwise have no use for it-i am still laughing ove the first time i saw an actress listed as an actor-lol-lots of love old hippie here
2006-07-23 19:06:34
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answer #10
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answered by bergice 6
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not in the slightest.
the requirement to censor yourself so that you do not appear insensitive or politically incorrect leads to debates that are not nearly as interesting or beneficial to the world.
I say F*** the PC C*** and let's say what we really think.
2006-07-23 18:55:34
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answered by nathanael_beal 4
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